"We live on a day-to-day basis," Suraj says, as the faint sound of hammering echoes across the village. "What we earn is what we spend on our families in a day." In Ganne, just off the main road about an hour south of the city of Allahabad, this is a simple fact of life. It is home to members of a poor tribal community, who live in small huts clustered around...
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Low Nutrition districts to be mapped for surveillance by Aarti Dhar
The Union Women and Child Development Ministry will map the high-risk and vulnerable districts to strengthen Nutrition surveillance. It will also set up a working group for surveillance in health and Nutrition at the Central level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). This follows a paper prepared by the Women and Child Development and Health and Family Welfare Ministries for addressing Nutritional challenges...
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There has recently been some triumphalism in Indian government circles over reports that the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) has been successful in reducing maternal mortality and infant mortality. Yet while the reduction in maternal mortality – from 301 to 254 for every 100,000 live births – does provide some cause for cheer, the reduction in child mortality – from 58 to 53 for every 100,000 live births – still...
More »'MalNutrition reason for 50% of child deaths' by Himanshi Dhawan
A new study on Nutritional challenges has painted a grim picture of the current Indian scenario where over 50% of child deaths are caused due to malNutrition. Concerned over the high number of child deaths, the ministry of women and child development (WCD) plans to strengthen Nutritional surveillance by mapping undernourished endemic zones and identifying "high risk and vulnerable districts". The report recommends developing a Nutrition surveillance system to identify...
More »Not A Lion In Sight by Shriya Mohan
THE BROTHERS are named Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol. But their similarity to the Bollywood Deol family ends there. Two-year-old ‘Bobbeed yol’, as he is called, has straggly, light brown hair and loose skin forms wrinkles on his stickthin limbs. He squats listlessly on a cement parapet, watching older boys play. His elder brother, five-year-old ‘Sunneed yol’, is malnourished too, and sick with pneumonia — for the nth time in...
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